EPISODE
SEASON
MacGyver - Season 1 (2016)
Agile war hero Angus Mac MacGyver makes use of his contemporary problem solving tactics to save lives.
27 April 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1991
1947
8 November 1982, Dallas, Texas, USA
1970, Apopka, Florida, USA
September 23, 2016
If I were 10 years old, I'd probably love the new version of MacGyver.... As I am not 10 years old, alas, I have to say that the MacGyver reboot is that rare thing: a likable bore.
September 22, 2016
Till's got charm and his on-screen bromance with Eads is one of the few elements that actually works. But patience and bromances won't save this. A smart, compelling, up-to-date rethinking just might.
September 23, 2016
This one thinks borrowing the names and rushing through the wizardry is enough to bring back the warm fuzzies of that time Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver made a defibrillator using nothing but candlesticks, a microphone cord... It's not hat easy.
September 23, 2016
It is trying very, very hard to fit in. It has the right elements; what it hasn't yet quite figured out yet, though, is how to combine them into something that will be truly explosive.
September 22, 2016
Till may get more of a workout than Minnesota's Richard Dean Anderson did in the original series, but he needs better dialogue if he wants audiences to keep running with him.
September 23, 2016
The new MacGyver is an ill-conceived, sterile reimagining of a series that is such a product of its time that it shouldn't have been updated in the first place.
September 23, 2016
It looks cheap (even though CBS decided to scrap the entire original pilot and make a new one), the action sequences are rote, the dialogue is mostly generic, and the characters are all one-dimensional.
September 23, 2016
CBS has owned Friday nights in recent years with a lineup of scripted originals that includes Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods. This reboot looks to be a pleasant way to start the lineup and the weekend.